The Best Way to Upgrade Your Smart Home in 2020

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Modern people are inseparable from the Internet, in addition to computer phones, even TVs, cameras, door locks, lighting, temperature control. Are you also interested in this convenient new technology to upgrade to a smart home in 2020? Let's do homework together Here we recommended you the way to build a smart home in 2020:

Control Hub

Basically, every smart home product will have a corresponding app, as long as you can perform various settings and operations through the app. However, when you have more than one smart home product, you may need to download many independent smart home apps to control different smart home products ... so if you can connect and control all smart home products through a total control hub. This smart home process will become much simpler and more convenient.​

When it comes to connection, I have to mention the existing smart home products on the market, some are connected via WiFi, some are connected via Bluetooth, and other smart home connection protocols are through Z-Wave, ZigBee, WeMo, Thread, etc. The protocol standards used are different Therefore, different products cannot communicate with each other. Therefore, when choosing a hub, whether it is compatible with other (especially smart home already used) smart products needs to be considered.​

The Best Way to Upgrade Your Smart Home in 2020


Generally speaking, although the WiFi connection is simple and easy to use, it consumes too much power. Such smart home products usually have to be connected to the power supply. In addition, the more the number of smart home connections, the more likely the communication delay will occur. Although the Bluetooth connection saves some power, its coverage and the number of connected products are limited.

Therefore, there are many smart home products on the market that use mesh network protocols such as Z-Wave and ZigBee that consume less power and can accommodate a large number of connections.​

In addition, many smart home products are now compatible with IFTTT (if this then that) service. With IFTTT, you can set a certain task to be executed when a certain condition is triggered, and you can set up many different smart home scenarios, such as when the door lock The lights in the hallway automatically turn on when turned on. Sometimes if there are no officially compatible two smart products that can use IFTTT service, you can try to establish association through IFTTT.


02.Apple HomeKit

Unlike other hubs, Apple HomeKit is not a physical smart home product. You do n’t need to spend money to buy a smart home control center hardware. You only need a smart home device with iOS 10 to enjoy the system developed by Apple service. HomeKit can be said to turn the iPhone, iPad, or iWatch using the iOS 10 system into a smart home hub, and connect to other smart home products via Bluetooth or WiFi. HomeKit can set commands or scenes to control compatible smart home products, and can also be controlled by voice with Siri, which is very convenient for people who already use Apple products.

However, these operations must be at your smart home, so that the mobile phone or tablet can be used in the coverage of Bluetooth or WiFi; if you want to perform remote smart home operations outside, you will also need to go to an Apple TV (third generation or later) as a command relay station.

The Best Way to Upgrade Your Smart Home in 2020

Another problem is that Apple HomeKit is still relatively new, and it also requires other manufacturers to develop compatible products based on its own protocols, so there are fewer devices available for the time being, and they will probably be different in the future.

 
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